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METALLIC RAILROAD TIE AND CHAIR. No. 379,612. Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

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.dttorney UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHRISTIAN G. SINGER, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,BASSLER BOYER, AND ABRAHAM C. SEAMAN,-ALL OF SAME PLACE.

METALLIC RAILROAD TIE AND CHAlR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,612, dated March20, 1888.

Serial No. 247,451. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN G. SINGER, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Lebanon,in the county of Lebanon,State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in MetallicRailroad Ties and Chairs or Rail-Locks, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has relation to means for sus- IO taining and holding inposition the rails of a railway; and the object is to improve and sim'plify the existing devices used for these purposes.

I have fully illustrated my improvements in I5 the accompanyingdrawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view ofa track having myimprovementsapplied. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the tie and rail-locking means; andFig. 3 is a perspective of one of the raillocks detached.

Reference being had to the drawings,which are to be taken as a parthereof, and wherein the same parts appearing in the different figuresare designated by similar notations, A

designates the cross-tie, which consists of a substantial metal body, 1,made of such Width as to wellserve the purposes intended,and havingdepending from the under face, at about the middle line, a flange, 2.This flange serves to keep the tie in its seat and to permit the tampingto be made firm and solid by affording a backing to the tamp from bothdirections. On the upper face of the tie is formed a vertical flange, a,in which are formed rail-seats 3,

5 which consist of ways having vertical sides.

The construction of my rail-lock is such that the usual flanges and earsof a made chair can be dispensed with and the rails laid in simple waysthrough the flange to keep them from lateral displacement. In the flangea, on each side of the rail-seats, are holes 4, in which are pivotallyarranged the rail-locks 5. These rail-locks consist of substantial metalbars bent into a staple or long U shape, substan- 5 tially as shown, andhaving the under face of the lugs slightly inclined or struck up, as at6, to set snugly above and over the flanges of the rails. Between theholes 4. and the wall of the rail-seats are holes 7, somewhat elongatedvertically to give room for ready insertion of a locking-pin, 8. Theends of these locking-pins reach over and bear upon the arms of theraillocks, and thus keep them down on the flanges of the rails. Thelocking pins 8 may be a split-key bolt, and after insertion the ends maybe turned, and thus withdrawal by jars or other accidents guardedagainst.

It will be perceived that the rails maybe laid in the Ways designed forthem with great convenience, and then the rail-locks simply 5o turneddown, with their ends resting on the flanges of the rail, and thelocking-pins inserted and driven home, when the rails have a solidfoundation and are held flrm in their seat by a very simple means.

The device is easily and readily detached by drawing out thelocking-pin, when the rail is free.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The railway tie and rail-lock hereindescribed,consisting of a metallic plate, A,formed with a verticalprojecting flange, a, having railseats 3 formed therein, U-shapedrail-locks 5, pivotally seated in the flange a,with their free ends toproject over and rest upon the railflanges, and locking-pins 8, passedthrough the vertical flange over the rail-locks to hold them on the railflange, substantially as described.

2. Therail-tie and rail-lock herein described, consisting of a metallicplate, A, formed with a vertical depending flange, 2, and a verticalprojecting flange, a, the flange a having railseats formed therein,U-shaped rail-locks 5, pivotally seated in the flange a, with their freeends to project over and rest upon the rail- 8 flanges, and locking-pius8, passed through the flanges a over the rail-locks to hold them on therailflange, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twoattesting \vit- 9o nesses.

CHRISTIAN G. SINGER.

Attest':

LEWIS REIIR, ADAM ALLWEIN.

